Removing sexual activity after confinement has been one of the most difficult tasks, and perhaps one that is likely to take longer than expected. For human beings, sex is a physiological need with large dimensions and must be cultivated as much as other practices, even in times of pandemic and confinement.
Many people were forced to go through the months of mandatory home confinement in solitude, and this resulted in many moments of anxiety, anguish, or sadness; in these cases, sexual desire is one of the things that is most inhibited in addition to being almost an imposition because it is not able to have physical contact unless there is coexistence in a couple. Either way, taking the reins and taking special care of sexuality during times of crisis can bring many benefits, and not only because of the benefits that the practice of sex itself brings with it, but it is of a lot of help to connect with your body, your inside and cope with the situation.
The fear of contagion or that they will get us infected leads us to be more careful with sexuality and to prefer self-satisfaction or cybersex, and this is demonstrated by the study “The confinement and sexual habits of the Spaniards” carried out by Pornhub and the consultant 40dB, where they show that more than half of the singles no longer practices sex or kisses in the mouth for fear of the covid.
Consumption of porn during and after confinement
The research was carried out on a sample of 1,500 people who were interviewed online, and where the results obtained after this analysis were amazing: 37 % of respondents admitted to having accessed a pornographic website recently. 36.8 percent have done so in the last month, mostly men. 27.6 percent say they saw porn years ago and just over a third of the population (35.4 percent) say they have never seen these types of pages.
In the same vein, 22.8 percent of respondents say they have intensified the frequency of consumption of pornographic content through websites, especially since the confinement was declared. Likewise, 60.4 percent, most of them, argue that their consumption is the same as before. But those who have increased their consumption, again are mostly men (26.5 percent).
Of the entire population that has recently accessed pornographic content websites, three out of four have done so alone, where nine out of ten are recognized as sexually inactive.
Another 15.4 percent have done so both alone and with his partner and 9.6 percent have done so in the company of his partner. Four out of ten people with a couple who see porn started accessing these types of websites with their partner right during confinement.
Of those who have seen porn recently, 37.6 percent accessing such websites helped them cope with the confinement period, especially men (42.1 percent) compared to the female population (25.5 percent).
15.6 percent of those who have recently accessed porn websites claim to have discovered new pornographic genres during confinement. These people respond to an upper-class profile, with university, single, and who do not live with their partner. Of those, nine out of ten continued to see these new porn genera after quarantine.
Data about sex during confinement
For fear of COVID-19 infection, 52.7 percent of Spanish singles claimed to have left sex, with the female population (57.7 percent) being higher than men (46.8 percent) in this situation. Likewise, 54.1 percent of singles confirm not having kissed someone in the mouth for fear of covid and a very similar percentage (54.7 percent) claims to have stopped going to a place to meet potential partners for fear of becoming infected. This fear is greater in women (59.7 percent) than in men (48.5 percent).
Only 14.4 percent of singles have had sex with someone they have known after confinement, while another 25.7 percent have done so with people they knew from before and 9 percent with people they met precisely during the confinement.
After the health crisis, 68.5 percent of the general population is convinced that, at present, for a single person, it will be more difficult than before to meet new people.
Lack of sex and affection in times of confinement
35.2 percent of Spaniards had sex very or fairly frequently during confinement. Of these, 49.2 per cent are people living with their partner compared to the other 12.4 per cent who do not live. Another 34.3 % had sex infrequently and 30.5 % did not directly practice sex during confinement.
Figures from this recent Pornhub research show how important sex is to people’s lives. 34.7 percent of Spaniards say they threw it a lot or much less during the confinement decreed in March. 41 percent of this population is single and 32.2 percent are married. On the other side of the coin, 32.8 per cent kicked it off a little less, and 32.5 per cent nothing.
47.2 percent of those who say they had little or less sex in confinement are people who have not had sex in the past month or have had it less than once a week.
Frequency of Sexual Intercourse
About the present day, 28.7 percent of the population has not had sex in the last month. 67 percent of respondents are single people. For its part, 20.7 percent of Spaniards have had sex on a single occasion in the last month, compared to 27.2 percent who have done so once a week; 19.2 percent, have done so two or three times a week, and 4.2 percent that has done so more than three times in that period.
More than half of the population (53.8 percent) say they masturbated in the last month, with more affirmative responses from men than women (66.5 percent compared to 41.2 percent), and mostly young people between the ages of 18 and 34 (72.1 percent of people in that age group).
The use of erotic sex accessories or toys does not seem to be widespread among the Spanish population. Only 19.5 percent admit to having used them in the last month, with a higher percentage of affirmative responses among women (23.5 percent) than men (15.4 percent).